“To those already inside, Pell appeared suddenly. Dressed in familiar black, with clerical collar, Pell came through the front door like everyone else. The highest-ranked Catholic to ever appear before the court on sex offences, it was, the court had been telling media all week, business as usual.”

Martin McKenzie-Murray reports on the scenes inside, and outside, the Melbourne Magistrates Court where George Pell faces “multiple historic sexual offence charges with respect to multiple complainants.”

Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the damage wrought by section 44, and Santilla Chingaipe on the ABC and editorial independence.

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